Rudolf Tarnow
Rudolf Heinrich Wilhelm Tarnow (born February 25, 1867 in Parchim ; † May 19, 1933 in Sachsenberg near Schwerin ) was a Low German poet and writer .
Life
Rudolf Tarnow was born in Parchim, Mecklenburg, as the eldest son of the shoemaker Heinrich Tarnow and his wife Dorothea, b. Pingel, born. He attended high school in Parchim from 1873 to 1881. He claimed of himself that he was a pretty good student. He always takes good care of himself in class and thus saves himself studying at home.
He left school with good results and began a commercial apprenticeship in a cloth factory in his hometown, which he successfully completed in 1885. In 1887 he was called up for military service in his hometown. After he had served his duty with the Dragoon Regiment No. 18, he remained a soldier and strove for a purser post. In 1889 he was transferred to the body company of the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Grenadier Regiment No. 89 in Schwerin , where he also had to perform representative duties and hold castle guards. However, he was not allowed to become paymaster. To do this, he would have had to leave a deposit that he could not afford. In 1894 he became a sergeant, purser assistant at Dragoon Regiment No. 17 in Ludwigslust . He held this position for twelve years. In 1896 he married Erna Bruns. From this marriage three children emerged, son Walter, daughter Elisabeth and son Rudolf. After his service, in 1906 he successfully applied for the position of operations inspector at the mental hospital Sachsenberg near Schwerin. There he lived at Wismarschen Strasse 173 and after moving several times in 1912, he moved into an official apartment in the staff settlement on Sachsenberg. In 1974 Tarnow's house had to give way to the new building of the district hospital (today: Helios Klinikum Schwerin).
Tarnow began to publish his Low German writings around 1910 to mark the 100th birthday of Fritz Reuter . His poem Ein Randewuh in the town hall of Stavenhagen was walled up in the foundation on the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone of the Reuter monument in Stavenhagen on November 7, 1910 and was published as a special edition by the Stavenhagen book printing company Beholtz. Afterwards Rudolf Tarnow wrote many poems and treatises, which he now had regularly printed. The best-known collection of poems is the Burrkäwers series, which appeared in six volumes from 1911 to 1918. The first three books contain above all humorous, real-life stories with which he poked fun at the small and big weaknesses of his fellow men. Like Reuter, Tarnow also used well-known Volksschwänke. The last three volumes, on the other hand, are entirely devoted to hurray patriotism.
His Köster Klickermann (1921) became particularly well known . Here, too, he went back to childhood memories and the interaction between school and church at that time. He brought his love for children a. in the children's book Rüter-Püter (1924) and the collection of poems Ringelranken (1927).
Tarnow, since June 1932 retired senior inspector. D. retired, died in 1933 in his long-term official residence on the Sachsenberg from the consequences of a heart condition and was buried on May 23, 1933 with great sympathy in a family grave at the Sachsenberg cemetery. At Rudolf Tarnow's funeral, a funeral oration was given again in Low German after many years. Pastor Schooff concluded with the words: Väl Minschen hett hei dat Hart makt happily!
From today's perspective, his hurray patriotism should be viewed critically around the First World War . His New Year's poems also clearly show his political position, for example he calls for a “leader” like Benito Mussolini for Germany , and in 1933 he welcomed Adolf Hitler's takeover .
Aftermath
Today many streets and schools in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania are named after Rudolf Tarnow.
A poem from Tarnow's collection "Ringelranken" (1927) achieved enormous popularity. The Hinstorff publishing house brought out jewelry sheets in over one hundred thousand copies, which became popular wall decorations in Mecklenburg households. In the corresponding variants of Low German , it was also used in the rest of northern Germany . Today it is an evergreen of Low German lecture art:
Don't worry, don't worry,
You wunnern the blot, what is happening
You must think more, the world is not stale,
Everyone hett grapple, you're ok!
Don't worry, don't make any sense
Ward the blot damage and nothing brings in,
Was fed by the smoke and the rook,
Is't almost forgotten, bust just so stupid.
Don't be angry with you, if you are wrong,
Haug mal up'n Disch un gliek is't gag,
Kort is your life and long you bust,
Minsch, don't be angry, no, laughter flourishes!
In “De Schaulpatron” (“Burrkäwers”, Volume 3), a charitable man demands a “Mecklenburg globe ” for the schoolchildren: “It's about Groß-Clamohn - and I'm the school patron. But you are offering the globe of America? - America? What use is that? Wherever we are in Mecklenburg, I have to have the Mecklenburg globe for my boys! ” The Räth Globen company in Leipzig manufactured one of these in the early 1990s.
Works
- A Randewuh in the town hall of Stavenhagen. Ceremonial poem for the laying of the foundation stone of the Fritz Reuter monument in Stavenhagen, 1910
- Burrkäwers. 6 volumes. 1911-1918
- Köster Klickermann. Country school teacher epic, 1921
- Rüter-Püter. Children's book. 1924
- Ring tendrils. Children's poems. 1927
- My so-called career. Memories. 1927
- De Lübeck Martensmann. Stage play. 1928
literature
Arnold Hückstädt : Rudolf Tarnow. A picture of life from Mecklenburg . Hinstorff, Rostock 1995. ISBN 3-356-00632-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Rudolf Tarnow in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature about Rudolf Tarnow in the state bibliography MV
- Works by Rudolf Tarnow in the state bibliography MV
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Sachsenberg clinic area was a community-free area until it was incorporated into Schwerin in 1939.
- ^ Karl Heinz Oldag: Rudolf Tarnow . In: Unforgettable. Their names are still known - a walk through the old cemetery. Schwerin 1996, p. 82.
- ↑ what is meant is the rendezvous
- ^ Arnold Hückstädt : Rudolf Tarnow. A picture of life from Mecklenburg , Rostock 1995, p. 157 f.
- ^ Karl Heinz Oldag: Rudolf Tarnow . In: Unforgettable. Their names are still known - a stroll through the old cemetery. Schwerin 1996, p. 84.
- ↑ Kay Dohnke: "Ik stäk dei Fahn ut." Behavior of Low German writers under National Socialism . In: Kay Dohnke, Norbert Hopster, Jan Wirrer (eds.): Low German in National Socialism. Studies on the role of regional culture in fascism . Hildesheim, New York, Zurich 1994, p. 294.
- ^ Arnold Hückstädt: Rudolf Tarnow , Rostock 1995.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tarnow, Rudolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tarnow, Rudolf Heinrich Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Low German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Parchim |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 19, 1933 |
| Place of death | Sachsenberg (Schwerin) |